Re: [CentOS] Question about RAID 5 array rebuild with mdadm

2008-04-17 Thread Mark Hennessy
Thanks for answering my e-mail!! On Apr 17, 2008, at 1:50 PM, Ross S. W. Walker wrote: Mark Hennessy wrote: ok, now it says that the array is recovering and will take about 10 hours to rebulid. /dev/sd[c-i] say that they are "active sync" and /dev/sdj says it's a spare that's rebuilding.

RE: [CentOS] Question about RAID 5 array rebuild with mdadm

2008-04-17 Thread Ross S. W. Walker
Mark Hennessy wrote: > > I'm using Centos 4.5 right now, and I had a RAID 5 array stop because > two drives became unavailable. After adjusting the cables on several > occasions and shutting down and restarting, I was able to see the > drives again. This is when I snatched defeat from the

Re: [CentOS] Question about RAID 5 array rebuild with mdadm

2008-04-17 Thread Mark Hennessy
Sorry about that, my previous e-mail had just '--chunk' toward the bottom. It should have been '--chunk=256' Please see the quoted snippet for detail. On Apr 17, 2008, at 1:01 PM, Mark Hennessy wrote: Ok, I stop the array and rebuild with mdadm --create /dev/md2 --assume-clean --level=5 --

[CentOS] Question about RAID 5 array rebuild with mdadm

2008-04-17 Thread Mark Hennessy
I'm using Centos 4.5 right now, and I had a RAID 5 array stop because two drives became unavailable. After adjusting the cables on several occasions and shutting down and restarting, I was able to see the drives again. This is when I snatched defeat from the jaws of victory. Please, some